last of Salem

Continuing to “finish” sections of this blog – today it’s Salem Massachusetts.

below: “Make art or die trying”.

Salem street art, graffiti sticker that says make art or die trying

below: “Super Dali” by Brazilian street artist Sipros (aka Wellington Naberezny)

young Dali with long curly mustache, oversized black glasses, and a cape like superman in a mural by Sipros, in Salem Massachusetts

below: Beside Dali is a spiral vortex in blues and oranges by HoxxoH, (aka Douglas Hoekzema)

HoxxoH mural in Salem, circles like a spiral vortex in yellow, orange, and blue

below: Golden 305 aka Cristhian Saravia

Golden 305 mural in Salem,

below: mmm

part of Golden 305 mural in Salem, pink unicorn, yellow cat, blue face with a yellow halo, alien in a small spacecraft

below: Unicorn love

part of a Golden 305 mural in Salem, pink unicorn with rainbow cooured horn, with pink heart, button eyes

below: “The Queen of the Block” by artist Mr. Cenz,

Mr. Cenz mural in Salem, woman's face
Mr. Cenz mural in Salem, woman's face on a building adjacent to one whose facade has been painted in graphic geometric shapes

below: “Si Se Puede” (translates to “if possible”) by Annadidathing aka Anna Dugan, and Yenny Hernández

si se puede, mural,

below: Along the river path, by Chor Boogie aka Joaquin Lamar Hailey

mural in Salem, along the river path, by Chor Boogie aka Joaquin Lamar Hailey

below: It looks a llot like fences intertwined, but the title is “Creciendo Juntos” (Growing Together) by artist El Cekis

mural by El Cekis, in salem, bluish green leaves growing against a pinkish chainllink fence, another pink fence, and a loopy yellow fence

below: “Katherine” painted by Mexican artist Paola Delfín in August 2018.

mural titled, Katherine, painted by Mexican artist Paola Delfín, large portrait in grey tones

below: “Garden Boy” by Pixel Pancho

Garden Boy by Pixel Pancho, large mural, head and shoulders of boy entirely in flowers and leaves

below: Little orange guys

little orange characters with curly legs, on a blue background
little orange characters with curly arms, on a blue background

below: Denny Tentindo. This mural was painted over in August 2026. It was on the side of a building, The Witch Doctor. When the business moved, the mural was painted brown.

mural, a row of grey elephants on brown background, mural in Salem
grey elephants on brown background, mural in Salem

below: Happy faces in a rainbow of colours, more work by Golden305.

row of large happy faces on fence, different coloured backgrounds in each section, purple, pink, turquoise, green, orange, yellow, by Golden 305
large x as eyes, face mural, black on yellow, by golden 305
little stickers on a red do not block street sign
sticker graffiti

below: A chef and some faces in black and white

paste up graffiti, one is a chef with a shark's tail, the other is two male faces, both in black and white
sticker graffiti

below: Happy frog face!

sticker graffiti, blue frog's face, laughing, with flowers in its hair

More Salem photos on this site – Salem street art

Photos taken July 2024

Downtown Hollywood Mural Project

The Downtown Hollywood Mural Project (DHMP) is a collection of more than 25 murals scattered around downtown Hollywood Florida.

close up detail of the colours and shapes in a turtle shell, mural

below: A sea turtle by Ernesto Maranje swimming on a wall.

sea turtle mural on a wall

below: Mural by Logan Hicks

mural of a person suspended in midair

below: A woman’s head in blue tones by rone

rone mural of a woman's head in blue tones - whole horizontal mural in parking lot with cars parked in front

rone mural of a woman's head in blue tones

below: A watery scene, ‘Off the Deep End’ by Nice ‘N Easy (aka Allison Matherly and Jeffrey Noble).  This is only a small section of the mural; it covers the whole wall and there is another pink life ring floating in the water.

aquamarine coloured water in a mural with pink tile edges on the pool and pink life ring floating in the water

below: A few zany and lovable characters by Kenny Scharf

abstract cartoon like characters in a mural, palm trees

below: Blue lattice, or pulsating waves, or something like that, by Hoxxoh

mural by hoxxoh of blue circles or pulsating waves on a wall

below: A large Mona Lisa over the entrance by 2alas (aka Andrew Antonaccio)

large face in grey tones made by vertical lines of differing darkness, over the entrance to a building, also shards of colour, triangles on white background

below: Pentagon-like shapes and a few squiggles, by Molly Rose Freeman

below: Palm trees and other plants on a pale pink wall, by Nicole Salcedo

mural by Nicole Salcedo, a pale pink wall with black outline drawing of trees and plants

below: Vertical rectangles of colour, part of a mural by Henning Haupt.

vertical bars of colour in a mural, mostly red and pinks with some blue and yellow

below: The Concrete Daydream by Rob Robi

mural on awall, blue, pentagon shape within a circle, blue squiggles

The last few pictures are from the same mural, by evoca1 (aka Elio Mercado)

below: A gorgeous vulture (if you can consider a vulture to be gorgeous)

a realistic mural painting of a vulture in shades of grey, in flight, beside two parked cars in a parking lot a man riding on the back of a verylarge vulture, he has a bow in his hand and is shooting arrows

part of a mural, a white dove is flying towards an open bird cage but it has been shot by an arrow

below: The woman holds open the door of a bird cage for the white dove but the dove was shot by an arrow. a woman holds open a bird cage for a wounded dove, mural, by evoca1 paint peeling on mural, woman in blue head scarf is holding open the door of a bird cage

There are a few other blog posts already written about the Hollywood murals.  They are:

  1. emo and remote collaboration
  2. The London Police
  3. Tati mermaid murals